Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.